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Strategies & Market Trends : World Outlook

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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (33721)10/15/2022 9:42:43 PM
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That was also not the only time the UK and US have intervened in the peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. The US State Department also boasted of not having made one single contact with Russian diplomats in the first six months.

washingtonpost.com

The war could've been stopped before Russia intervened if Ukraine had agreed to a cessation of the shelling of the Donbass and accepted the security guarantees for the regions and Russia in return for its own security. That proposal was made on February 21 by France and Germany, two of the guarantors of the Minsk treaty, and promptly rejected by Ukraine.

There were no battles around Kiev or N. Ukraine that forced Russia to withdraw its forces. When one looks at the reports during that time, there was nothing. According to the Pentagon, Russia only had 20 battalion tactical groups in the North. That's only 12-16 thousand soldiers which is roughly the number of Ukrainian soldiers who are presently defending Bakhmut, a small city of 70 thousand. Taking Kiev was obviously not a goal.

Russia starts pulling troops from kiev and redeploys to East Ukraine

npr.org
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